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Disasters & emergencies fact checks
Explore claims publishers have checked about disasters & emergencies. Read their original ratings and follow the evidence.
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FactCheck.orgDisasters & emergencies
There are "over 1,000 missing children in Maui" after the August wildfires.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
Video shows the state of “Great Britain now,” with “78,000 people under the water.”
Publisher’s rating: False
فکتنامهDisasters & emergencies
گاهشمار وقایع سقوط هواپیمای اوکراینی (از لحظه سقوط تا قبول مسئولیت)
Publisher’s rating: گاهشمار وقایع سقوط هواپیمای اوکراینی
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
A car flooded in Germany had a sticker critical of Greta Thunberg.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
Says a photo that shows a group of dead, scorched sheep is from Australia wildfires.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
A photo shows a crash in Eminence, Indiana.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
A video shows the deadly Jan. 15 plane crash in Nepal.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
"Acapulco destroyed by yet another directed weather attack!”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
Texas wildfires are a “deliberate” attack on U.S. food supply.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
The Titan “submarine never happened. They faked their own deaths.”
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
Esta imagen muestra “los escombros en Taiwán, tras el terremoto de 7.4".
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
“Code red emergency - poison released in the air” affecting 127 million people.
Publisher’s rating: Mostly False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
A video shows the helicopter crash that killed Kobe Bryant.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
"Imagenes de los restos encontrados del submarino” Titan de la empresa OceanGate.
Publisher’s rating: False
FactCheck.orgDisasters & emergencies
The ship that hit the Francis Scott Key Bridge "was cyber-attacked " and intentionally hit the bridge.
Publisher’s rating: Conspiracy theory
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
La vicepresidenta Kamala Harris ofrece "solo $750 para los norteamericanos qué perdieron todo con el Huracan" Helene.
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
The Beirut explosion was linked to “human trafficking by HRC."
Publisher’s rating: False
PolitiFactDisasters & emergencies
Says a Donald Trump tweet credited Gov. Ron DeSantis for Hurricane Dorian’s path away from Florida.
Publisher’s rating: Pants on Fire